List of Famous people born in France

Henri II de Montmorency was a French nobleman and military commander.

Constance Adolphine Quéniaux was a dancer and courtesan at the Paris Opera Ballet. She is the presumed model for Gustave Courbet's painting L'Origine du monde, in which a woman is seen explicitly displaying her genitalia.

Charlotte de La Marck was a member of the House of La Marck and Duchess of Bouillon in her own right. She married into the House of La Tour d'Auvergne but died without issue.

François Garde is a French writer and high-ranking official

Jessé de Forest was the leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions. They emigrated to the New World, where he planned to found New-Amsterdam, which is currently New York City.

Maurice Halbwachs was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his La Topographie Legendaire des Evangiles en Terre Sainte; study of the spatial infrastructure of the New Testament. (1951)

Julien Guadet (1834–1908) was a French architect, theoretician and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur was a marshal of France.

George Desvallières (1861–1950) was a French painter.